In this episode
The T-64 and friends, how the USSR happened to have three MBTs at the same time;
Ernst Heinkel and his "Greif", the last chance to get the nazi gold;
Hotline: the developers answer questions that you've left in the comments!
But first, let's start with the new star of War Thunder, the M1 Abrams!
Metal Beasts M1 Abrams
Our guest today is a pure legend.
A symbol of the modern US ground forces, hero of many conflicts and all that.
Meet the M1 Abrams!
First of all, let's look at the engine.
Apart from being outstandingly loud, it provides as much as 1519 HP,
which leads to a maximum of 72kph.
You won't get that fast very often, but even then, in real battle conditions and offroad
you'll run at a stable 50-55 kph, which is quite nice.
Also, this tank is amazing when it comes to reverse, 40 kilometers per hour!
Not only can you hide after a shot with that.
If you want, you can outrun a T-64! Backwards!
As for the the armour, you've got composite at the front, with protection from kinetic and high-explosive shells.
For those of you who like the numbers and all that
the lower glacis plate can withstand 380mm of kinetic damage
and 600mm of an explosive one.
The upper one is less protected, but then again — it's a lot harder to hit it too.
The turret is interesting as well.
It rotates at a great rate of 40 degrees per second
and also is protected from a damage of different shells: 400 and 650mm correspondingly.
What we mean is, it will be quite difficult to open up this baby at the front.
The protection of the turret is a lot weaker on the sides
160 and 400mm from different shells
but it is still enough to save most of the crew members in case of a direct hit.
By the way, have you noticed the way the ammo racks are stacked?
Almost all the ammo is hidden in the back of the turret and there's a layer of armour dividing it from the crew.
Why is that?
Well, with this design, the Abrams can continue the fight even after somebody lights up its ammo.
Thanks to the blow-off panels you simply, extinguish the fire and get back into action.
As for the armament, you've got the M68A1 cannon of 105mm,
and the M774 APFSDS shells piercing up to 410mm from 500 meters.
If you prefer a less conventional approach, you'll also find the M393 "hesh"
and the M456-A2 "heat-FS" shells also piercing up to 400mm of armour.
Yes, this tank is quite demanding of your aiming skill.
But if you miss, you're still ok!
the reload rate of this gun is only 5 seconds!
The Abrams is also quite durable.
Not only because of good armour, but also because this one is completely at home with any kind of smoke screens.
It has… well, all of them, and can cover not only itself, but basically, the whole team.
Now, if, after all of that, you still haven't figured it out, on this tank you can play however you like.
Seriously, capturing points, close combat battles, sniper duels, flanking
this tank is as universal as death itself.
Okay, if you insist — it isn't very good when it comes to ambushes.
But only because of the engine, that roars so loud, that it's heard from every corner of the map.
Still, in all other cases — you'll be unstoppable on this one.
And now, a story on how one Soviet MBT suddenly transformed into three.
Pages of History The Soviet MBTs
During the Cold War, the USSR ended up in a very strange situation:
they'd got as much as three MBTs in service with similar performance data but not compatible with each other.
Those were the T-64, the T-72 and the T-80.
How could this happen in a country with a planned economy and how did the Bolsheviks not notice that?
Let's find out.
First of all, a couple of words on the T-64.
Its predecessors, the T-54 and the T-62, were based on the T-44.
But this one was brand new and revolutionary in many ways
from a cooling system and the undercarriage, to armour and an autoloader.
During 1968, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
decided that the T-64 ha to be assembled in three locations
Kharkiv, Leningrad and Nizhny Tagil.
At the time, the tank wasn't very stable
it had a lot of problems, especially in the engine part.
So, in Nizhny Tagil, they decided to use another engine
the V-45, descendant of the legendary V-2.
One thing led to another and instead of a modification they'd introduced a new tank!
It was the T-72, with another autoloader, a more traditional cooling system and a new undercarriage.
Now there were two MBTs in one country, that performed pretty much at the same level
but had different construction.
In theory, the T-72 was a cheaper analogue, in case of a new war.
But if it was supposed to be cheaper and simpler, why bother installing a new and expensive undercarriage?
The thing was, probably, not in its price, but in habits of the military.
The T-64 was too modern for them.
They had to get used to it and create new infrastructure for it.
And then came the more traditional T-72 and sure enough, became quite popular.
Ok, what about the T-80?
This one is a bit more complicated.
The thing was, that during 1948, in Leningrad,
an engineer named Josef Kotin started experimenting on turboshaft engines, trying to fit one into a tank.
Usually, they were used in helicopters, and all the first years of work led to nothing.
But in 1966, the Soviet government found out that the Americans were creating a turboshaft
for their future MBT, the Abrams.
Kotin then proposed to install such engine in the T-64
and was backed up by the future Minister of Defence, Dmitry Ustinov.
As a result, instead of assembling the T-64 in Leningrad, they were developing another new tank!
This time — with a turboshaft, a new transmission and an undercarriage similar to western models.
And yes, it was named the T-80, and they decided to make this one not only in Leningrad, but
also in the Soviet Ukraine.
Now, in Kharkiv they didn't like this idea.
They were forced to assemble quite a strange tank with a less than perfect engine
when they'd already created and tested their own 1000 hp, 2-stroke diesel engine for the T-64.
It was as powerful as the one on the T-80, but a lot more efficient.
So, why did they have to install a turboshaft anyway?
The engineers stood their ground and won, at least partially
The T-80UD was assembled in Kharkiv with their own 2-stroke diesel engine.
And here's the final question.
Why wouldn't they just use that same diesel on the T-64,
without wasting 7 years on some strange experiments?
Well… unfortunately, there are still some questions that we don't have the answers to.
And now let's go to Germany, where Ernst Heinkel was desperately trying to get rich.
Pages of History Heinkel He 177 Greif
They say that Ernst Heinkel hated the nazis.
And they would be completely wrong.
He was one of the first to realize, how colossal the profit from their war preparations could be
especially… the revival of the German Air Force.
He quickly set himself a goal to… make the words "Luftwaffe" and "Heinkel" sound like synonyms.
That would clearly make him, Ernst Heinkel the richest and the most powerful aircraft businessman in Europe
And possibly, in the whole world.
But those plans would always fail.
First, he created the Heinkel He.111.
He almost got it right.
But then Hitler suddenly wanted all the bombers to be able to dive-bomb.
Out of nowhere came the team from Junkers, worst rivals of Heinkel
and presented the Ju.88 that became the most mass-produced two-engine aircraft of the Luftwaffe.
Okay, better luck next time.
Heinkel switched to one-engine dive-bombers… and got outsmarted by Junkers again!
Fine! Screw the bombers completely!
Here's a one-engine fighter for you, mister Hitler, the He.112!
And you know who gets in the way this time?
No, not Junkers.
Willy Messerschmitt himself with his Bf.109.
Heinkel tried to win this fight and created the He.100
but it could only be called a royal fiasco.
Ernst Heinkel was constantly out of luck.
There was only one area left that he could succeed in, a strategic bomber. Why?
Because Göring had already announced Hitler's position on that one
in the coming war Germany would not need an aircraft like this, so no need creating them.
But Heinkel knew, Germany would surely need it, even if it didn't realize it, yet.
Of course, the projects of all the Ural-bombers were closed, but there was a way out.
He needed to create an aircraft that was de-jure a two-engine bomber.
But in reality, the engine on this one wouldn't be typical.
It would be a paired power-plant also known as the Daimler-Benz 606, and later 610.
Now, there would still only be two propellers, so technically, it would be a two-engine aircraft.
The fact that each propeller was powered by two power-plants, well...
Hitler didn't need to know this technological boring stuff, right?
The problem was, Heinkel wasn't the only smart man in the industry.
Messerschmitt has already launched his Me 261 Adolfine with the same engine solution.
Heinkel needed to hurry. But he couldn't.
The He.177, also known as the Greif
turned out to be the most technically complicated aircraft in the history of the German aircraft industry.
Its creators had to make a lot of unusual and difficult decisions.
They'd even taken out a heavy fire barrier behind the engine mount,
just to make the aircraft able to bomb from a flat dive.
It was a huge mistake, but, at the time, it passed unnoticed.
Of course, the blitzkrieg failed and turnedinto war of attrition.
Heinkel had finally found his luck
The Luftwaffe generals had realized, how much they needed a strategic bomber,
and he was the only one with a more or less a finished prototype.
Now, he was able to dictate his own rules on how a bomber should look.
The Luftwaffe could only agree and beg to give it to them as quickly as possible…
and Heinkel did, for a lot of money, of course.
The Greif made it to mass production, even with all the fire-safety,
because the Luftwaffe needed anything that could bomb British and Soviet cities and manufacturing.
But what could a thousand Greifs do againstmany thousands of American and British bombers? strategic
Those had already turned most of Germany into dust.
In his underground bunker in the final days of his life,
Hitler finally understood, why one needs a strategic bomber.
As for Heinkel… he was hastily syphoning his money off to Switzerland
and preparing a story on how he hated the nazis.
Get ready for the traditional last part of our show: Hotline!
Developers answering questions from the comments!
Hotline
The first question was asked by a user called Meron Bridge:
"New jets any time soon? Great patch btw.
Oh and what I liked the most out of the neweffects is definitely the new water effects!"
Glad that you liked it, mate! As for the new jets — there will definitely be more.
Sooner or later we can't say, but there will be, that's for sure.
A player called Members Ship writes:
"Will we ever be able to make our own ammo belts?"
Yeah, 'cause that would totally not ruin the balance like, at all!
Also, we take a more historical approach here,and try to get each machine with exactly the ammo it actually used.
Black man says:
"Any possibility of more French tank's coming in the next patch?"
Hey there. This is totally possible, we're not done with the French ground forces in the slightest.
Keep your eyes peeled!
And the last, very serious message, was sent by a player called Cpt. SkyLynx:
"What happens when a Challenger challenges a Challenger to a challenge? Victory"
Well, we'd bet on mutual destruction and lots of casualties.
These challenges can be quite messy.
That's it for today but feel free to write your questions in the comments below.
We do read them all, and you might see some of them answered in the next episode!
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